I got this from Joseph as a karma giveaway in this thread http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=74376
This is the Mag Release and it came with their BHO lever
http://www.joeboboutfitters.com/Magazine_Pull_Release_Black_Matte_p/rt-mpr-010b.htm
Anyway the mag release then sat on my shelf for 4 months, because I'm a lazy ass and kept putting it off and I didn't have the tap I needed.
Well today I finally got off my ass and went to Sears and for $4 bought the drill bit and tap I needed.
The installation was relatively simple. And let me tell you, I will tap plastic anytime anyone wants me to. All my experience with taps has been in AR recievers.... Tapping the plastic trigger housing for the set screw was like buttah!!!
I took my time and spent a lot of time making sure I understood how everything in the trigger housing worked together. And I thought I understood, until it came time for reassembly.
On reassembly, I could not get the front pin back through the trigger housing. I wailed on a good and hard with my rubber tipped hammer and got nothing. So I pulled everything back apart. I then realized the slave pin that comes with the kit is bigger then the holes in the reciever
So I tossed that aside, (it will make a nice starter pin for in my press on other projects LOL) and instead I just stuck a much much smaller pin from the trigger housing itself in the hole. This meant after getting everything in the gun, I had to play with the mag release to get it lined up with the help of a flashlight, but still, I got it all together.
So I function check everything is great, but the bolt hold open won't release. Sonofabitch... So I take it apart again and realize that the spring on the hammer is supposed to sit on the BHO. So I had to pull everything apart again, but now I can't take out the BHO because of the set screw being loctited in place (I could have, but I don't want to risk ****ing up the plastic threads in the trigger housing). So instead I just pulled the hammer out of the gun.
After that everything went together nice and easy and everything is working great
I give this kit 3 stars out of 5. I'm not totally sold on the pull release yet, you have to break your grip with your shooting hand to manipulate it, but it is very simple to use.
The good - The mag release is much easier to grab then the factory one and it is very smooth
The bad - The slave pin being too big was a huge annoyance. And despite the ease of tapping the trigger housing, I feel like they could have came up with a better solution for that, like a pin with a flat head to hold it along the outside edge of the trigger housing
This is the Mag Release and it came with their BHO lever
http://www.joeboboutfitters.com/Magazine_Pull_Release_Black_Matte_p/rt-mpr-010b.htm
Anyway the mag release then sat on my shelf for 4 months, because I'm a lazy ass and kept putting it off and I didn't have the tap I needed.
Well today I finally got off my ass and went to Sears and for $4 bought the drill bit and tap I needed.
The installation was relatively simple. And let me tell you, I will tap plastic anytime anyone wants me to. All my experience with taps has been in AR recievers.... Tapping the plastic trigger housing for the set screw was like buttah!!!
I took my time and spent a lot of time making sure I understood how everything in the trigger housing worked together. And I thought I understood, until it came time for reassembly. On reassembly, I could not get the front pin back through the trigger housing. I wailed on a good and hard with my rubber tipped hammer and got nothing. So I pulled everything back apart. I then realized the slave pin that comes with the kit is bigger then the holes in the reciever
So I tossed that aside, (it will make a nice starter pin for in my press on other projects LOL) and instead I just stuck a much much smaller pin from the trigger housing itself in the hole. This meant after getting everything in the gun, I had to play with the mag release to get it lined up with the help of a flashlight, but still, I got it all together.So I function check everything is great, but the bolt hold open won't release. Sonofabitch... So I take it apart again and realize that the spring on the hammer is supposed to sit on the BHO. So I had to pull everything apart again, but now I can't take out the BHO because of the set screw being loctited in place (I could have, but I don't want to risk ****ing up the plastic threads in the trigger housing). So instead I just pulled the hammer out of the gun.
After that everything went together nice and easy and everything is working great
I give this kit 3 stars out of 5. I'm not totally sold on the pull release yet, you have to break your grip with your shooting hand to manipulate it, but it is very simple to use.
The good - The mag release is much easier to grab then the factory one and it is very smooth
The bad - The slave pin being too big was a huge annoyance. And despite the ease of tapping the trigger housing, I feel like they could have came up with a better solution for that, like a pin with a flat head to hold it along the outside edge of the trigger housing
